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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1916)
Buhl M I L K CAN TH E B E S T TH AT IS MADE 23=Lb Pioneer Can, Pressed Top and at the low price of CLOVERDALE MERCANTILE CO ! feet slleneo upon the enemy. Their advance was heralded by a scream, but before they were discov ered they were within striking dis at their abduction and that most of tance. What surprised them was that them, taking to flight, would make Instead of running away the girls sank down where t hey were, coveriug their good on esciqie. Preparations were at once begun for faces and shrieking. So expeditious the raid in accordance with Mrs. Har were the abductors that before the rison's jjdvlee. One end of the town elderly folks of the town could even was set apnrt for the girls and beau ti collect to observe what was going on lled so far as the men could beautify every girl had been carried off and it, though, to tell the truth, this con placed on a wagon. Never was an abduction more easily sisted chiefly In cleaning up, white effected. A few of the girls resisted washing, etc. There was also a clean ing up of the prospective husbands. as they were hurried away, but wheth There were but two or three razors In er or no they deemed resistance useless the town, and these were In constant their struggles were not violent. Once requisition. Several men were ap in the wagons, with a guard on either pointed hair cutters and did a lot of side, they remained quietly where they shearing. The clothes the men had had were, and the caravan set out for come In from the east and were got Eagleblrd. They had not been long on the way out and furbished. Altogether after when a guard at one of the wagons , the polishing a very presentable set of | young men were ready for courtship went forward to O’Brien and said: I "Some of the girls In the wagon I’m and matrimony. May day opened bright and beautiful. with are snickering.” “ Snickering? Are you sure it’s not All the teams In the town were har nessed, and some thirty good and true hysteria ?” "Hysterics be hanged It’s a girl’s men started for Ladybird. At noon they stopped In a wood a few miles real snicker.” Then came other reports of the same from the town for lunch and rest, but by 2 o'clock were again on the march. kind, and presently the girls began to About 3 they sent out a mounted scout take note of their abductors, then to to watch for the time fitted for the at ask what they were going to do with ' them, and before long the train wns tack and wnlted. Over the waving grass and wild flow much like a picnic party. Well, to make a long story short. ers, through the young leaves, came the sound o f feminine voices mixed Mrs. Harrison on her visit to Ladybird merrily. Every man started to his | had told of the predicament of a lot of foot. In a few minutes the scout rode nice young meu going downward for Into camp and reported that the g i r l s want o f wives, and after duly prepar were dancing about the maypole. ing the young ladies’ minds revealed O'Brien, who wa.s leader, gave the or the coming raid. Gradually she won dor to start, and. advancing to the them over to permitting themselves to cover of trees overhanging certain l>e abducted, assuring them that they houses o f the town, they left their would not be forces! to marry unless teams and. forming a line of battle, at they wished. a Hven signal moved forward In per Within a few hours after the arrival a number oV :':e girls could be In HOW THE TOWN OF LADY that duce! to remain with them as wives. What such persons chiefly dreaded was BIRD WAS DEPOPULATED | that the captives would feel outraged (Continued trom first page) "Good! Bully! And you won’t give us away?" cried the crowd. The Indy declared that she would not give them away, and she was not sure but that her conscience would permit her to aid them. The meeting broke up with wild cheers for their visitor, alder and abetter, and the next morning, amid another round of cheers, the con pie drove away. In a few days a message came from the late visitor, who signed herself Elizabeth Harrison, stating that In a f e w days May day would l>e celebrated at Ladybird on the square around w hich the town was built and that at 4 o’clock In the afternoon the young people would dance around a maypole. The children would tlrst do the danc ing, then the young men and women. But since there were but two or three young men In the town and they either Invalids or too spiritless to go away from such a dull place they did not count Therefore It was expected that some twenty-five or thirty young girls would 1 h > dancing together, constitut ing a fine flock of Ladybirds to bo seized and carried away. Mrs. Harrison strongly advised pre paring a portion of Eagleblrd for their reception and that they be placed there together by themselves. No one should be forced Into marriage; they should simply be held until married from choice or It was evident that they pre ferred to return to Ladybird. That they had been fortunate In so curing the services and advice o f a wo man was evident to all. Some who had believed that the scheme would t>e the ruin of Eagleblrd began to think of the train at Eagleblrd there was a wedding, and before the day wns end ed there were two more. The number of spinsters each day grew beautifully less, and in the end but two of them returned to Ladybird. Eagleblrd is now quite a sizable town, comprising churches, schools nyd nil the requisites of civilization. A few great-grandfathers of the present gen eration are still honored as having been among the band that placed the town on a permanent basis by the raid on Ladybird. The latter town has dis appeared, there being no trace o f it I left except a cemetery, in which has grown up a forest of trees FRANCIS L. MICHELBOOK Of McMinnville, Republican Candidate for Joiht Senator. For the 24th Senatorial District, com prising Lincoln, Tillamook, Washing ton and Yamhill counties. I was born and raised on an Oregon farm and after graduating from the State College, have been intensively engaged in farming; served Yamhill County as Representative in the 2.’>th legislative assembly. If nominated and elected will con tinue to work for lower taxes, and str ict economy. I favor laws for the people an«, rural credits; am opposed to tlie creation of new offices, commissions, raise of salaries or the misuse of cleri cal patronage for the legislative assem bly, and favor limiting this clerical litre to a business basis. oppos'd to any modification nv laws passed by the people as the pic’s powet through the ballot should u „■ :.:mpe . d w i t h — adv.